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The more things change

Tuesday 9 February '10

In the Charlie Chaplin film The Great Dictator, there is a famous scene in which Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet.
Waiting for the credits to roll

Friday 23 October '09

The Maharashtra elections results will force Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray to reinvent themselves....
The issues in an ‘issueless’ election

Tuesday 13 October '09

To say that the Maharashtra Assembly elections will be a replay of Lok Sabha 2009 is to display huge ignorance and even indifference about...
In a shadowy fray

Friday 25 September '09

Explore the vacuum of ideas in the Maharashtra campaign to understand MNS
Maharashtra muddle

Thursday 3 September '09

The Maharashtra assembly election will set both tone and tune of the political orchestra currently being conducted by Dr Manmohan...
Mask upon mask in the BJP

Thursday 21 May '09

No wonder it is confused now.The BJPs’s multiple personality disorder stems from its very origins.
Empawarment

Tuesday 3 March '09

Read his biography and you’ll know: he just wants to be prime minister
Once was Mumbai

Friday 28 November '08

Even otherwise, the city of Mumbai is explosive. But everytime there is a terrorist attack, the metropolis is gripped by a kind of fear psychosis.
Mumbai Cowboy

Wednesday 22 October '08

Once upon a time the Raj Kapoors and Dilip Kumars cashed in on their dreams, but in those days of ‘Shehar aur Sapna’ there used to be sympathy for the migrant poor
‘All the problems have been solved. Now let’s build a statue’

Friday 6 June '08

It appears that all the problems of Maharashtra have been solved. People are not only happy and contented but are looking forward...
The many worlds of Vijay Tendulkar

Tuesday 20 May '08

Vijay Tendulkar transcended the cultural boundaries of Maharashtra.
Uncle, nephew, people

Thursday 8 May '08

Read Raj Thackeray’s latest speech as a reflection of a wider Maharashtrian political economy problem.
So many ways to Raisina Hill

Saturday 5 April '08

Karnataka could determine Lok Sabha poll dates. But the churning has already begun
Spot the difference

Wednesday 13 February '08

Raj and Uddhav Thackeray recently spoke of inclusive politics. Why that promise proved to be empty.
Mumbai spin

Thursday 31 January '08

A roaring tiger with menacing eyes is a symbol of the Shiv Sena.
Moditva’s fading echo in Mumbai

Friday 7 December '07

Today, when Narendra Modi is in the news for his ugly election rhetoric at Mangrol...
Great Maratha who?

Friday 20 July '07

There is a false impression gaining adherents in most parts of India that Pratibha Patil, soon to be ensconced as the president of India...
Two Patils, one Rashtrapati

Saturday 16 June '07

The lady and the snowman: Pratibha and Shivraj are a study in contrast
Eye on Pawar

Thursday 22 March '07

NCP’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Shiv Sena must be read as a move by a long-distance runner
Mumbai is an island

Tuesday 6 February '07

Don’t even try to find Maharashtra-wide trends in the BMC results
No fight for a new world

Friday 15 December '06

The recent violence that convulsed Maharashtra bore a caste character but it was essentially an expression of a spreading lumpen frustration — across castes
Estranged bedfellows

Saturday 7 October '06

The Chimur bypoll was just an excuse for the BJP and Shiv Sena to play for future stakes
Made over by succession

Friday 8 September '06

Supriya Sule will alter the political equation between the Congress and NCP
Modi can’t fix the Mumbai Mosaic

Wednesday 19 July '06

The average Mumbaikar is too busy working on survival to care about the Gujarat CM, and the average Gujarati in Mumbai holds him in no special thrall
Pawar play in Vidarbha

Friday 30 June '06

His agenda for the PM’s visit emerges from the politics of three turbulent decades
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